The 8t o Januar is the 8t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 357 days ti come (358 in lowp years).
1815 : Battle o New Orleans 1912 : Banner o the African Naitional Congress1297 - Monaco gains unthirldom.1697 - Thomas Aikenhead becomes the last body in Scotland tae be executit for blasphemy .1746 - Second Jacobite Uprisin: Charles Edward Stuart occupies Stirlin .1790 - George Washington delivers his first State o the Union address.1815 - Withoot kennin that the Peace o Ghent hae been signed, American troops defeat the Breetish at the Battle o New Orleans , endin the War o 1812 .1912 - The African Naitional Congress, current governin pairty o Sooth Africae , is foondit.1916 - US Preses Woodrow Wilson propales his "Fourteen Points" programme for the aftermath o Warld War I .1940 - The Unitit Kinrick introduces food rations.1959 - Charles de Gaulle becomes Preses o Fraunce .1973 - The Soviet Union launches the Luna 21 probe.1989 - The Kegworth Air Disaster in Leicestershire kills 47 fowk.1996 - A plane crash in Kinshasa , in then-Zaire , kills 327 fowk.2010 - Togo 's naitional fitbaa team is attackit in Cabinda, Angolae .2011 - Six fowk are kilt in a shuitin in Tucson , Arizona . Congress member Gabrielle Giffords is severely injured.2020 - Ukraine Internaitional Airlines Flicht 752 is shot doon in error shortly efter tak-aff frae Tehran , Iran , at a time o escalatin tensions in the region; 176 fowk are kilt.
Elvis Presley David Bowie 1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera , Spaingie politeecian (d. 1930 )1891 - Walther Bothe , German pheesicist (d. 1957 )1933 - Mariam Fakhr Eddine , Egyptian actress (d. 2014 )1934 - Jacques Anquetil , French cyclist (d. 1987 )1935 - Elvis Presley , American sangster an actor (d. 1977 )1942 - Stephen Hawking , Inglis pheesicist (d. 2018 )1942 - Junichiro Koizumi , umwhile Prime meenister o Japan 1947 - David Bowie , Inglis sangster (d. 2016 )1967 - R. Kelly , American sangster, rapper an record producer1983 - Kim Jong-un , leader o North Korea 1986 - David Silva , Spaingie fitbawer1992 - Kenny McLean , Scots fitbawer1999 - Damiano David , Italian sangster, frontman o Måneskin
1107 - Edgar, Keeng o Scots (b. 1084 )1198 - Pape Celestine III (b. 1106 )1324 - Marco Polo , Italian splorer1337 - Giotto , Italian penter an airchitect (b. 1266 )1642 - Galileo Galilei , Italian scientist (b. 1564 )1941 - Robert Baden-Powell , 1st Baron Baden-Powell (b. 1857 )1976 - Zhou Enlai , Cheenese politeecian (b. 1898 )1996 - François Mitterrand , Preses o Fraunce (b. 1916 )2002 - Alexander Prokhorov , Soviet-Roushie pheesicist (b. 1916 )2015 - Andraé Crouch , American sangster an producer (b. 1942 )2017 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , Preses o Iran (b. 1934 )2020 - Infanta María del Pilar, Duchess o Badajoz (b. 1936 ) 
